Morning journal and courier., 1887-03-08

"1t has been stated by Mrs. Beecher tha
 telegrams of coincidence have been received
 from President Cleveland and that some
 have also come from England. Has il
 been decided when these will be given out
 publication" "A great many telegramf
 have been received from clergymen all over
 the country and from friends, but none have
 come from MT. Cleveland or from abroad 1 We have not thought as yet what
 ultimate disposition will be made of the tel | egrams and letters. It is impossible for us to
 think of outside matters. The family has l been much touched by the feeling of rever- 1 ent sympathy which has been manifest for it | in it's af1iction ever since MT. Beechers ill- l ness began. While he was in his full vigor ! he was ever friend of the people, and nov when he lies low they are showing their love l tor him." The conversation was interrupted l at this point by visit from exMayor Low and Rev. Lyman Abbott and the reporter l took his leave.
 Colonel Beecher left the house this morn ing about 10 o'clock to stay little while at his office. The Misses Scoville daughters of MT. Beecher's favorite child Harriet, arrived at the house this morning. Strangely enough they met at the Grand Cen tral depot this morning after not hav- ing each other for some time. One of them was returning home from trip to the Pacific slope and seeing the re- port of MT. Beecher's attack in the papers decided to stop over and come to Brooklyn, although she had no idea her grandfather was in such imminent danger The other was on her way to Brooklyn from her home ill Stamford, Conn.
 Henry w. Sage, formerly of Brooklyn and now of Ithaca, one of MT. Beecher's lifelong friends, has caused it to be known that he intends providing marble or bronze statue of the Plymouth pastor and of presenting it to the city of Brooklyn to be placed on suitable site in Prospect Park.
 About ten years ago when the Park Con- gregational church was struggling along un- der heavy debt MT. Beecher for two years paid the interest on the mortgage years later when the church made heroic effort to clear the debt MT. Beecher called meeting of his trustees and present ed the case to them. He said that the Park church had raised $11 1000 and wanted 5000 more and if his trustees did not pay it he would pay it himself. The sum was speedily raised, MT. Beecher contributing generous sum. These facts have not been generally known. At the services of the Park church yesterday, the pastor, Rev John w. Malcolm, spoke feelingly with reference to MT. Beecher and briefly rehearsed to the class of the church communicants the generous assistance which he rendered to the church in it's dark days. MT. II. P. Smith also spoke and paid fitting tribute to the great preacher. A vote of sympathy to Mrs. Beecher was taken. In the event of MT. Beechers death appropriate action will be taken by the church.
 At p. m. Dr. Searle issued statement that the pulse during the day had reached IA, but was then no, respiration 40, tenn perature 9915. The general condition was worse than at any previous time. The char acter of the pulse indicated failing heart power. Death might result either from heart paralysis, failure of respiratory eenters or renewed hemorrhage. No other prediction could be made than that death would proba- ply not occur during the night. The patient doubtless suffered no pain. His con- dition was probably that of one in troubled dream. MT. Beecher is sinking slowly but visibly. The members of the family are around his bed fearing that the end is near, though it is possible he may survive for sev eral hours.
 DRUMMERS CANNOT BE TAXED. The Supreme Court Besides Such Tax
 to Re Unconstitutional.
 WASHINGTON, March 7.-The Supreme court of the United States reconvened to day to complete the spring session which will adjourn in May. A large number of decis- sions prepared during the months recess were rendered. The ''drummers' tax" case brought here from the Supreme court of the State of Tennessee, involving the right of one State or municipality to impose license tax upon travelling salesmen from another State seeking to sell goods by sample or otherwise, was decided in favor of the plain tiff, Saben Robbins. The decision is that such taxation is an interference with inter State commerce and therefore unconstitu- tional. A decision was rendered in the case of Thomas Baldwin, of Calaifornia, in what is known as the Chi nese case. Baldwin was arrested and held as the leader of party of white men who drove the Chinese from Suter county, California, in February, 1886. He first applied to the circuit court in Cali fornia for release on writ of habeas corpus. This was denied him and he brought his case to the Superior court of the United States. Baldwin was charged, under ''con- spiracy sections of the revised statutes, with conspiring to deprive persons of the equal protection of the laws. The court to-day held that as the laws were not framed for the protection of Chinese they are not applical to Baldwin s offense and so the judgment of the court below is reversed with costs and the cause remanded for fur ther proceedings in accordance with this opinion. Chief Justice Waite prepared the opinion of the court, Justices Field and Har- land dissenting.
 The court also rendered decision in the case of the heirs of Herman Spiedel against Jacob Henrici, brought here on appeal from the United States circuit court for the western districh of Pennsylvania, which brings to light an interesting story. In 1901 George Rapp brought to this country from Wurtem burg about fifty families and settled on the banks of the Ohio, about twenty miles from Pittsburg. The colony was known as the s'harmony economists" and the town they founded was called Economy. Rapp not only installed himself as leader, but informed his followers that he was their prophet and they would jeopardize their salvation unless they turned over all their property to the church-he being the self same church. This was done and then the self made prophet is sued another edict forbidding and intercourse of the sexes. Everything went smoothly with the colony and they fourished and were apparently happy until 1881, when one of their number, Hermann Spiedel, revolted, went to Pittsburg and married; and it to recover his portion of the wealth of the Economy society that his heirs brought suit. The property involved is valued at thirty million dollars, and as only about fifteen families remain all are in afiuenee. Herici, the defendant, is now eighty years old. Without going into the merits of the case as to whether the society was proper one or not, the court declares that the complainant Spiedel having allowed his claim to sleep for AI- |